Which other JVM languages to support?

[keilw]

While Groovy/Grails support is taking decent shape here, what other JVM languages do you think are important enough to support.

An initial list would be:

• Scala
• Clojure
• JRuby
• Jython
• JavaScript / Nashorn

(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages#High-profile_languages)

Others may include:

• Ceylon
• Fantom

Any other language you feel is important enough or you wish to contribute something, please comment here.

[msgilligan]

On the above list, I think JavaScript/Nashorn should be prioritized. I've been hearing good things about and seeing adoption of Kotlin lately, so maybe it should be added to the list.

But as far as my own contributions, I want to focus on Groovy and the Bitcoin Provider for now.

[keilw]

I guess so, too, given this list: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2015/01/14/language-rankings-1-15/?imm_mid=0cc572&cmp=em-prog-na-na-newsltr_20150207

Kotlin, feel free to give it a try, but outside a few people at JetBrains, I doubt it really matters in real life, though if the figures above are really derived from Github, some projects (likely also mostly by JetBrains;-) might use it, but I don't think it is used by real corporate clients now as Scala and others

[keilw]

Scala certainly sounds of particular interest. Given the UK HMRC got quite an impressive Open Source effort on GitHub https://github.com/hmrc and nearly all of their stuff is written in Scala.

[keilw]

Based on Android support, Kotlin gained a lot of momentum and we got a first shelter space, for it, too.

[msgilligan]

I'm using Kotlin now in a few projects. It has DSL capabilities similar to Groovy, and Java Money and DSLs are a nice combo.

[keilw]

Take a look at https://github.com/JavaMoney/javamoney-shelter/tree/master/kotlin-support. Not sure, how complete it is, but any extra help is highly appreciated.

[bountin]

kotlin-support is definitely not finished but I've started it because I was really missing the operator support and I didn't want to keep it private in my own project.

I really enjoy coding in Kotlin, so if there's anything to do, I'm happy to offer help.

[keilw]

Thanks for sharing. I recently attended a Clojure MeetUp and might look into Clojure support or ask others in that community for help.